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Mars reconnaissance orbiter aerobraking daily operations and collision avoidance
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Jah, Moriba K. Demcak, Stuart W. Higa, Earl S. Bhat, Ramachand S. Highsmith, Dolan E. Halsell, C. Allen Mottinger, Neil A. You, Tung-Han Graat, Eric J. Long, Stacia M. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reached Mars on March 10, 2006 and performed a Mars orbit insertion maneuver of 1 km/s to enter into a large elliptical orbit. Three weeks later, aerobraking operations began and lasted about five months. Aerobraking utilized the atmospheric drag to reduce the large elliptical orbit into a smaller, near circular orbit. At the time of MRO aerobraking, there were three other operational spacecraft orbiting Mars and the navigation team had to minimize the possibility of a collision. This paper describes the daily operations of the MRO navigation team during this time as well as the collision avoidance strategy development and implementation. |
| File Size | 574788 |
| Page Count | 16 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080012690 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6q005t4q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-09-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance Circular Orbits Navigation Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Trajectories Orbit Insertion Aerobraking Collision Avoidance Anomalies Elliptical Orbits Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
